How to solve “Flutter command not found” Error

Question:

bash: flutter: command not found

Apparently none of the flutter commands are working on the terminal of android studio which I believe I am trying to run it at the root of my project.

Answer 1:

You need to correctly set up your flutter path.

from here https://flutter.dev/docs/get-started/install/macos#update-your-path

1. Determine the directory where you placed the Flutter SDK. You will need this in Step 3.
2. Open (or create) $HOME/.bash_profile. You can do that by using terminal text editor by going in terminal and typing nano ~/.bash_profile

macOS Catalina uses the Z shell by default, so edit $HOME/.zshrc.

If you are using a different shell, the file path and filename will be different on your machine.

3. Add the following line and change [PATH_TO_FLUTTER_GIT_DIRECTORY] to be the path where you cloned Flutter’s git repo:

export PATH=[PATH_TO_FLUTTER_GIT_DIRECTORY]/flutter/bin:$PATH

for example:

export PATH=~/Documents/flutter/bin:$PATH

4. press CTRL X and when it asked you to save the file, choose yes
5. Run source $HOME/.bash_profile to refresh the current window or restart the terminal
6. Verify that the flutter/bin directory is now in your PATH by running: echo $PATH

Notice that [PATH_TO_FLUTTER_GIT_DIRECTORY] is where you installed flutter SDK, not the location of your app

Instead of nano, you can use any text editor to edit ~/.bash_profile

Answer 2:

Tried out all the above methods, but all of them lasted only until the terminal was open. So I went ahead and directly added it to the path file permanently.

sudo nano /etc/paths

add this to the file

/Users/yourUserName/Development/flutter/bin

Save the file, Tada!

Answer 3:

Do the following steps:

1. Download the Flutter SDK Flutter SDK Archive
2. Extract it where do you want (for example /home/development/flutter)
3. Set your PATH, edit your file with this command gedit ~/.profile, you need to add this line

export PATH=[location_where_you_extracted_flutter]/flutter/bin:$PATH

I showed you above where I’ve extracted mine, so my export will look like this

export PATH=/home/myUser/development/flutter/bin:$PATH

4. Save the file and close it.
5. Run source ~/.profile to load the changes
6. If you run now flutter doctor should work!

Answer 4:

If you are using zsh, you need to follow below steps in mac.

• Download latest flutter from the official site.
• Unzip it and move to the $HOME location of your mac.
• Add to path via .zshrc file
  • run nano ~/.zshrc into iTerm2 terminal.
  • export PATH=$HOME/flutter/bin:$PATH
  • Save and close ~/.zshrc file.
  • re-start iTerm2
• Now you will have flutter available.

One if the Answers above should be able to answer your question.